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Word: drives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latter's convincing victory over N. Y. U. is not to be regarded as a pushover. According to a former Harvard assistant, Holy Cross, using Notre Dame formations, is one of the fastest charging and hardest hitting teams of the East. The Purple line has a savage lift and drive and forms a dogged defense that is an even match for a somewhat doubtful Crimson forward wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEST PURPLE TEAM IN YEARS OPPOSES CRIMSON COHORTS | 11/16/1929 | See Source »

During the last two weeks, an organized campaign has been carried on by the traffic division of the Cambridge Police Department to secure the numbers of all drivers who have been using automobiles registered in foreign States. According to Sergeant J. R. King, the drive has already resulted in the registration of over 50 machines illegally within the State after the 30 days allowed to out-of-State cars. This total includes students from Harvard, Radcliffe, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Department Shows Sudden Activity in Tagging Erring Drivers--Out-of-State Licenses Frowned Upon in Campaign | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

...Tail Waggers' Club grew out of a drive made a year ago in England by the Royal Veterinary College. President of the world organization is The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Chesterfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Tail-Waggers | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...been interested in the hidden cache, but the college has decided that all shall share a similar fate. Just at the time when the rugs have been laid on the floor and the furniture has begun to assume a natural air--then does the iron hand of the law drive the exiles out into the world to seek a new lodging. While the affair makes admirable copy for metropolitan newspapers and will amuse countless burghers in numerous cities, the students involved must have sentiments much akin to those of the banished Huguenots and the Moors of Spain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE NEW YORK MANNER | 11/8/1929 | See Source »

...rule very effective against Dartmouth but it affords a contrast to the usual straight run and might be a real weapon if used at less frequent intervals. With Booth at quarterback, however, the chief ground gaining plays found him doing the carrying behind a devastating line drive. Time and again he would fake the crossbuck and then turning ahead march through large openings in the Dartmouth forward wall before meeting the slightly flatfooted secondary. Or again he would waltz of tackle and gingerly dodge his way to open or near open territory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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